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hifiguy

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6. Policy wise he is just a bit to the right of one Richard M. Nixon.

Thu Dec 18, 2014, 08:19 PM

Dec 2014

Nixon was never an ideologue, he was a center-right opportunist, politically speaking. I remember all of the Nixon presidency quite vividly.

ETA - he is a center-right politician who leans left when there's nothing huge at stake just as Nixon was a center-right pol who leaned right when there was nothing big at stake. But that Obama is at heart what, in the 1970s, we called a "liberal" or "Rockefeller" Republican is not in doubt. OR maybe a bit more conservative than that, in terms of economic policy. He has certainly bent over backwards to protect the banksters.

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Is Barack Obama a "Liberal Republican"........Or, Something Else? [View all] KoKo Dec 2014 OP

Comparing Obama to Nixon is obscene. NoJusticeNoPeace Dec 2014 #1

I was at a Nixon campaign event in Dayton OH upaloopa Dec 2014 #4

Obama has claimed the power to execute U.S. citizens without due process. Maedhros Dec 2014 #35

Once Nixon left Vietnam, he did not go back in. grahamhgreen Dec 2014 #65

Uhhhh, it was Obama himself who said that in many ways Nixon was more liberal than he (Obama) is LondonReign2 Dec 2014 #67

From this liberal's view, it ain't pretty. polichick Dec 2014 #2

But he's a socialist Muslim commy. ErikJ Dec 2014 #3

The jury has spoken unrepentant progress Dec 2014 #5

Juror #2 brought up an interesting point... blue neen Dec 2014 #17

It's just a context sensitive prepositional phrase. unrepentant progress Dec 2014 #22

Thanks for the explanation. blue neen Dec 2014 #23

No, no comma *after* "which." But "which" is a relative pronoun, so tblue37 Dec 2014 #33

Many thanks. blue neen Dec 2014 #51

"In which" is a prepositional phrase, but the clause thus introduced is a tblue37 Dec 2014 #32

Which Thespian2 Dec 2014 #34

. blue neen Dec 2014 #52

Policy wise he is just a bit to the right of one Richard M. Nixon. hifiguy Dec 2014 #6

He is not to the right of Nixon, dont be silly NoJusticeNoPeace Dec 2014 #8

Nixon hated the "Eastern Establishment" with a passion. hifiguy Dec 2014 #12

If they told him to, he would have. If Nixon were president today he would make NoJusticeNoPeace Dec 2014 #14

Nixon was a rotten SOB, and there's no way to avoid that hifiguy Dec 2014 #15

Obama knew they were never going to bite, it was a gamble but a good one. NoJusticeNoPeace Dec 2014 #16

I voted for Obama in 2008 with more enthusiasm than I had ever brought hifiguy Dec 2014 #18

+1. MAJOR Disappointment when He appointed Geithner and Bernanke. The results are evident... adirondacker Dec 2014 #19

The mask came off with the Geithner and HRC appointments hifiguy Dec 2014 #20

Exactly the way I see it dreamnightwind Dec 2014 #25

On the bright side, the Democratic nominee in 2016 tblue37 Dec 2014 #38

My memory of him, also....n/t KoKo Dec 2014 #31

Personally I'd agree unrepentant progress Dec 2014 #9

* He just normalized relations with Cuba KamaAina Dec 2014 #7

And quite literally something no Democrat in the past 50 years conceived of either unrepentant progress Dec 2014 #11

And Nixon went to China LondonReign2 Dec 2014 #68

Obama is a company man Slim Pickens Dec 2014 #10

Every last word of THIS. hifiguy Dec 2014 #13

Got it in..."1"! truebluegreen Dec 2014 #21

hey, didn't you hear about Cuba? Skittles Dec 2014 #24

well said slim Pharaoh Dec 2014 #30

.... 840high Dec 2014 #46

Welcome to DU... SidDithers Dec 2014 #49

+a million! SammyWinstonJack Dec 2014 #60

"I am not saying any of these things are good or bad"...I will. Not good! RiverLover Dec 2014 #26

This again? BeyondGeography Dec 2014 #27

Your concern is duly noted. n/t Lil Missy Dec 2014 #28

Just anothe corporate stooge Pharaoh Dec 2014 #29

Way to the right of Nixon, slightly to the right of Reagan. He has killed the party by driving Doctor_J Dec 2014 #36

"Slightly to the right of Reagan"!!!... SidDithers Dec 2014 #50

Reagan borrowed to pull the economy out of the hole Doctor_J Dec 2014 #53

He knowingly kills 50+ innocents for every suspected "militant" targeted by drone strikes. Maedhros Dec 2014 #37

Quite a bit of that is a real stretch, e.g. "forced GM into...bankruptcy". cheapdate Dec 2014 #39

He's a center-right corporatist Fiendish Thingy Dec 2014 #40

Ha - reeks of desperation Politicub Dec 2014 #41

Barry Ritholtz made his money in a Wall Street investment bank. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2014 #43

As "desperate" as the ones falling all over themselves to high five it. Number23 Dec 2014 #59

Pretty close to Bill Clinton who was the best republican pres since Teddy R. project_bluebook Dec 2014 #42

This reminds me of the Republicans calling John McCain a Liberal. herding cats Dec 2014 #44

There is nothing liberal about him. Jamastiene Dec 2014 #45

... SidDithers Dec 2014 #47

complete nonsense. DCBob Dec 2014 #48

Ironical...considering liberal Republicans are the fore fathers of Rex Dec 2014 #54

Not to mention that liberal Republicans were the original "progressives" (nt) Recursion Dec 2014 #55

They were, though liberal republicans were not around long Rex Dec 2014 #56

In an alternate world where the GOP didn't have a Southern Strategy Recursion Dec 2014 #57

Tax cuts and unemployment benefits are true keynesian stimulus. mathematic Dec 2014 #58

It's plain old corporatism Man from Pickens Dec 2014 #61

It is good to know cooler heads prevail who does not think trashing many of our good hard working Thinkingabout Dec 2014 #62

I've thought about this a lot walkingman Dec 2014 #63

He's a fiscally conservative Republican with a few socially liberal views. Scuba Dec 2014 #64

+1 nt RiverLover Dec 2014 #66